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VTAG Bringing Sunshine out of the Shadows VTAG VICTORIAN TRANSPORT ACTION GROUP Website: www.victransport.com.au Email: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/victoriantransportactiongroup Bringing Sunshine out of the Shadows A land-use planning based approach April 2021 BRINGING SUNSHINE out of the SHADOWS ABOUT THE VICTORIAN TRANSPORT ACTION GROUP ............................................................................. 4 Sunshine - a victim of bad planning ...................................................................................................................... 5 SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................................... 7 1. SUNSHINE AS AN ECONOMIC HUB .................................................................................................... 10 Identifying the issues ............................................................................................................................. 10 Sunshine as the capital of Melbourne’s west ....................................................................................... 11 The Brimbank Council: Sunshine Priority Precinct Vision 2050 ........................................................... 12 2. DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS .................................................................... 15 Current developments .......................................................................................................................... 15 The Sunshine CBD .................................................................................................................................. 16 Albion Quarter ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Ballarat Rd/ SunRise .............................................................................................................................. 17 Westside ................................................................................................................................................ 17 Sunshine and the Regional economy .................................................................................................... 18 Nearby precincts ................................................................................................................................... 18 St Albans ............................................................................................................................................ 18 SHWEP ............................................................................................................................................... 18 Sunshine North/ Luma/ Sunshine Energy Park .................................................................................. 19 Cairnlea ............................................................................................................................................. 20 Braybrook regeneration project ........................................................................................................ 20 Solomon Heights ................................................................................................................................ 21 3. SIX TRANSPORT UPGRADES NEEDED BEFORE METRO ...................................................................... 22 Existing services have poor frequency .................................................................................................. 22 1. Improving train services ................................................................................................................ 22 2. Route 500 Sunshine to Airport SmartBus...................................................................................... 25 3. Creating an effective bus network ................................................................................................ 26 4. Local bus network reform and simplification. ............................................................................... 28 5. SmartBus to Highpoint, Essendon, and the Eastern suburbs. ....................................................... 29 6. Walking and cycling access improvements. .................................................................................. 30 4. SUNSHINE AS A FUTURE TRANSPORT HUB ....................................................................................... 31 Failure to comply with the Transport Integration Act .......................................................................... 31 4.1 Sunshine after the Metro Rail Tunnel (2025-2029)......................................................................... 32 4.2 Sunshine after the Melbourne Airport Rail Link (2029) .................................................................. 33 4.3 The proposed Albion viaduct .......................................................................................................... 34 4.4 Sunshine North to the Airport ......................................................................................................... 37 4.5 Sunshine and the Western Rail Plan ............................................................................................... 38 4.6 Sunshine and the Suburban Rail Loop ............................................................................................. 39 Bringing Sunshine out of the Shadows Page 2 of 42 4.7 Sunshine and standard gauge passenger services .......................................................................... 39 4.9 Sunshine and freight........................................................................................................................ 40 4.8 Expand and reorganise trams in the west ....................................................................................... 40 5. CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................................................... 42 Bringing Sunshine out of the Shadows Page 3 of 42 ABOUT THE VICTORIAN TRANSPORT ACTION GROUP This submission is made by the Victorian Transport Action Group (VTAG), an independent forum of transport professionals that meets monthly to discuss the challenges of transport in Victoria. Members have a range of expertise across transport, planning, State and Local Government, IT and the environment, including past employment with Government, Government Agencies, Department of Transport, VicRoads and Academia. VTAG has an extensive network of connections in local government, planning and public transport that it can access for insights into the complexity of transport issues and provide options for equitable, practical solutions. Members are familiar with the challenges of developing and implementing transport plans across all transport modes and understand the difference between blue sky ideas and the reality of funding, political interest, and community support. We are particularly conscious that limits on funding necessitate placing priorities on projects; and that in turn leads to communities competing to achieve outcomes that satisfy their needs. Contact Mike Reece Mike Reece, Secretary, Victorian Transport Action Group Email: Phone 0417 544 685 Bringing Sunshine out of the Shadows Page 4 of 42 Sunshine - a victim of bad planning Sunshine is not an “integrated transport-focussed metropolitan activity centre.” It is a mess - a victim of raised expectations, poor planning, and undelivered promises. It started out as a major industrial complex built around regional rail access for delivering the famous Sunshine Harvesters and for processing barley and wheat coming back from western Victoria. Worker Housing for railway workers, factory workers and new arrivals soon sprang up around Sunshine, including a ‘garden-city’ estate in the neighbourhood now known as Albion featuring the heritage listed ‘HV McKay Memorial Gardens’. Public transport, like most of the western suburbs, remained a low priority for decades. Car oriented shopping complexes were built, away from the station and surrounded by ugly car parks. The Sunshine and Joan Kirner Hospitals were developed two stops north in their own precinct. Victoria University is split between two campuses in Sunshine and St Albans. Recent transport planning has hyped a transformation of Sunshine as a SuperHub for seven separate rail services, (two of which now seem unlikely to pass through Sunshine): 1. The Regional Rail Link with additional tracks CBD to Sunshine and new line via Tarneit and Wyndham Vale opened in 2015. 2. The extended and electrified Sunbury line which will take Metro trains from 2025. 3. The Melbourne Airport Rail Link (MARL) – due to open in 2029. 4. The uncommitted Western Rail Plan to electrify the services to Melton and Wyndham Vale – (these major centres are now served by Ballarat and Geelong trains respectively); 5. The $2 billion “Faster train” to Geelong was to be routed through Sunshine but seems more likely to run via Werribee. 6. The western leg of the SRL was to run through Sunshine – but now seems destined to terminate at Melbourne Airport. 7. Providing a standard gauge passenger platform to enable transfers 8. Standard and broad-gauge freight services, including a new link to the proposed Western Interstate Freight Terminal (WIFT) in Truganina West. Sunshine has been designated a National Employment and Innovation Cluster (NEIC) – one of just seven in Plan Melbourne 2051. A draft Framework Plan produced by the Victorian Planning
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